The nurse is caring for a patient requiring therapeutic hypothermia. The nurse understands that the patient must be cooled with cooled saline bladder irrigations. The nurse is monitoring the patient’s temperature and notices that the patient’s temperature dropped from 38.5 degrees Celsius to 35 degrees Celsius in two hours. The nurse anticipates which of these interventions would be indicated?
Continue the bladder irrigations.
Stop the irrigations.
Notify the healthcare provider.
Apply a warm blanket over the patient to slow cooling.
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